2015 Artistic Director Barry Humphries has brought together some of his music and comedy favourites for your enjoyment – sensuous sirens, charismatic crooners, scandalous storytellers and jovial jesters who are hilarious, naughty, sexy, addictive, outrageous and dangerous – this game of cabaret has no rules.

The Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum Now Festival, presented by ANZ, has announced that Australia’s favourite brother and sister duo, Angus & Julia Stone, will round out the line-up for the final weekend of Spectrum Playground, the free music festival in The Domain.

Since departing Belvoir in 2010 after 25 years as its esteemed Artistic Director, Neil Armfield’s prodigious talents as a storyteller have been in high demand across theatre, opera and film. Ahead of the opening of his latest venture, Reflections on Gallipoli with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, he speaks to Garrett Bithell about the special concert, the impending release of the film version of Holding The Man, and reuniting with Geoffrey Rush later in the year for King Lear at Sydney Theatre Company.

Director, writer, painter, photographer, sculptor… the list of David Lynch’s talents is almost endless. This month Aussie audiences will finally get to sample his visual mastery when David Lynch: Between Two Worlds opens at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art. CULT’s Cec Busby speaks to curator Jose Da Silva.

Sydney Dance Company has opened its 2015 season with the Southern Hemisphere premiere of living legend of dance William Forsythe’s Quintett, as part of a double bill entitled Frame of Mind, which also features the world premiere of a new work by Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela.

The Sydney Opera House today announced the full line-up of artists joining British iconoclast Morrissey at the seventh annual Vivid LIVE program of contemporary music – part of Vivid Sydney, the Southern Hemisphere’s largest festival of light, music and ideas.

In a stunning coup, Sydney Dance Company opens its 2015 season with the Southern Hemisphere premiere of living legend of dance William Forsythe’s Quintett, as part of a double bill entitled Frame of Mind. Thomas McManus, who created Quintett with Forsythe, and Sydney Dance Company dancer Cass Mortimer Eipper – who is performing the role McManus danced in the original 1993 production – both sit down with Garrett Bithell.

One of the program highlights of the inaugural Spectrum Now Festival in Sydney is renowned theatre director Shannon Murphy’s opera debut, an immersive travelling production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice starring Silvia Colloca at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Murphy and Colloca sit down with Garrett Bithell.